d4rk_tailed
Doritoes,Leaf Storm!
Hi all, first thread here:
So i was playing Fire Red back again, and got to thinking about how Ash's novice Pikachu took down Brock's Geodude, and then Onix, albeit with a struggle. Or when he managed to defeat Lt. Surge's Raichu. Then look at Johto, one region on, and Ash fought Pidgeot and Dodrio as Falkner's best Pokemon. If Ash HAD left his Kanto boys at Oaks before setting off for Johto, and had been using Chikorita and Heracross to earn his Zephyr Badge, I dont reckon Pidgeot and Dodrio would have been Falkner's Pokemon.
My point is that, although the first 3 sagas were too early to make any judgements on patterns in the series, would a beginning trainer in Johto (ie. with a Cyndaquil and maybe a Pidgey or Caterpie) have been put up against Pidgeot and Dodrio? Even Charizard and Pika had a hard time with those two, so would beginners be forced to fight immense Pokemon like those to win their very first badge?
Or if you look at Roark's Pokemon in Sinnoh, where Ash used a new set of Pokemon, and just about scored level, supposing there had been a trainer who had travelled 10 regions, along the way powering up his Pokemon, and not dropping them off with his Professor after every league, surely they would find whupping Brock or Roark a cinch that could be completed within 2 minutes?
So (sorry about long windedness) do Gym Leaders actually change their rosters depending upon who challenges them? Do trainers register how many regions they have travelled and what Pokemon they carry with them with the leader before the leader picks his/ her Pokemon? Otherwise, youd have Brocks Geodude and Onix taking on Torterras, Milotics, Dragonites, Tyrannitars....and if Ashs beginner Pikachu cut them down, what would better trainers do?
So i was playing Fire Red back again, and got to thinking about how Ash's novice Pikachu took down Brock's Geodude, and then Onix, albeit with a struggle. Or when he managed to defeat Lt. Surge's Raichu. Then look at Johto, one region on, and Ash fought Pidgeot and Dodrio as Falkner's best Pokemon. If Ash HAD left his Kanto boys at Oaks before setting off for Johto, and had been using Chikorita and Heracross to earn his Zephyr Badge, I dont reckon Pidgeot and Dodrio would have been Falkner's Pokemon.
My point is that, although the first 3 sagas were too early to make any judgements on patterns in the series, would a beginning trainer in Johto (ie. with a Cyndaquil and maybe a Pidgey or Caterpie) have been put up against Pidgeot and Dodrio? Even Charizard and Pika had a hard time with those two, so would beginners be forced to fight immense Pokemon like those to win their very first badge?
Or if you look at Roark's Pokemon in Sinnoh, where Ash used a new set of Pokemon, and just about scored level, supposing there had been a trainer who had travelled 10 regions, along the way powering up his Pokemon, and not dropping them off with his Professor after every league, surely they would find whupping Brock or Roark a cinch that could be completed within 2 minutes?
So (sorry about long windedness) do Gym Leaders actually change their rosters depending upon who challenges them? Do trainers register how many regions they have travelled and what Pokemon they carry with them with the leader before the leader picks his/ her Pokemon? Otherwise, youd have Brocks Geodude and Onix taking on Torterras, Milotics, Dragonites, Tyrannitars....and if Ashs beginner Pikachu cut them down, what would better trainers do?